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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:48:34 +0400
From:      =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sbin@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mntopts.h mount.8 mount.c src/sys/kern vfs_lookup.c vfs_syscalls.c vfs_vnops.c src/sys/sys mount.h
Message-ID:  <19980408224834.38476@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199804081832.LAA04184@freefall.freebsd.org>; from wosch@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 11:32:00AM -0700
References:  <199804081832.LAA04184@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 11:32:00AM -0700, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> wosch       1998/04/08 11:32:00 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/mount           mntopts.h mount.8 mount.c 
>     sys/kern             vfs_lookup.c vfs_syscalls.c vfs_vnops.c 
>     sys/sys              mount.h 
>   Log:
>   New mount option nosymfollow. If enabled, the kernel lookup()
>   function will not follow symbolic links on the mounted
>   file system and return EACCES (Permission denied).

Why? If you care of /tmp, it can be easily overwritted with TMPDIR env.
variable as peter points.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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